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I shaketrouble Bartie and Luthor and some of the Feeders ”

“Doc says it’s getting pretty bad,” Kit replies My face must have shown my worry, because she very quickly adds, “But so will be fine ”

She rushes over to help when a nurse calls to her, leaving hts I start to head to the elevator—I could go to my room, but I remember Orion’s words from the last video: “Go home You’ll find the answers there Go home ” And while I don’t know for sure what he : that little square bedrooht, but it is not my home

Instead, I head back to the Recorder Hall Maybe Elder’s right and the clue is hidden in an atlas, but I don’t think Orion would have done so that sio, especially since Luthor is busy in the City

As I mount the stairs to the Recorder Hall, I notice that the little cubbyhole where Elder’s painting once hung is elance behindon in the City, but I don’t like the way Kit assured me that everyone was fine When people say that, they usuallyis

There are fewer people than nor the wall floppies or heading to the book roo in low, anxious tones Several look up atmy head scarf or my hood I move to cover my hair, but it’s too late One of the men near the door approaches

“Were you in the City?” he asks

I nod He looksmuscles still tense, ready to run if I need to

“Is it true what they’re saying? That there’s a riot?”

“I wouldn’t call it that,” I say “Look, it was just a handful of people causing trouble ”

A wo to her wi-com Their information is much et info, but I’ve only got Elder My finger hovers over my wrist wi-co up the crowd, bringing me in as evidence of Elder’s ineptitude He’d be better off withouthim now, that’s for sure

The others don’t look convinced at my dismissal of the City’s probleo to the book rooms in the back of the Hall It takesfor, but eventually I discover one oversized book with a map of the world on the cover I realize, as I pull the book off the shelf, that there really would not be much need for an atlas of Earth here on this ship or e land on the new planet This is just for records, I suppose, nothing else

There’s a whole section in the atlas on America I flip first to Florida—that’s where I spent es, but I can already tell there’s nothing unusual there, not a floppy, not a mem card, not a handwritten note I flip next to Colorado That was the last place I called hohts

But e here either

I wonder if there’s anything else with echoes of Earth on this ship—a globeone on the Keeper Level But this was a clue Orion left foron Elder’s level for me to find